High Tea in Orbit

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Yesterday I went up the Sky Tower with a friend to enjoy “High Tea in Orbit”. It’s a proper afternoon tea service in Orbit,  Sky Tower’s revolving restaurant. It was a truly luxurious experience, with everything tasting absolutely divine, while enjoying the BEST views of Auckland without all the crowds.

Also… (back on the ground) I finally got a car stereo that plays more than one radio station. I had no idea till after it was installed and I was reading the instruction manual, that there are stations in Auckland that actually broadcast data to your radio enabling it to display the name of the station you’re listening to, PLUS the name of the song. How cool is that?

Auckland Domestic Airport

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Flew to Wellington on Friday for a meeting. Had to fly with Jet Star to Wellington and Pacific Blue back to Auckland.

I’ve never flown with Jet Star before and I hope I never have to fly with them again. From the minute I was told I had to be at the airport a whole hour before departure to the minute I got off the plane I was not impressed.

There are many reasons why Air New Zealand is more expensive, but they are worth it.

Christchurch Cathedral

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It’s almost too good to be true. Had to go to Christchurch for work. Got to teach for a whole week in the beautiful city of Christchurch. The weather was perfect too allowing me a quick chance every night after work a little bit of time to take photos.

DSC_8032

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Sunday, 23rd of August 2009

My friend Nicky went swimming with the sharks at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World. It’s an experience you can pay to do, but no amount of money could be paid to me to get me to do it.

While I was there I got to take some photos of the penguins (I love Penguins) but trying to focus the camera through a wet snow buggy window is not that easy and most of the photos didn’t come out very good. Still it was great fun.

The Flying Pencil

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Wednesday, 12th of August 2009

Today I flew to Rotorua for the day (for work). The airplane I flew on was definitely one of the smallest planes I’ve ever been in. I’m sitting at the back of the plane (seat 10A) I could watch the pilot changing the controls even from the back of the plane.

The view when landing back in Auckland through the pilot’s window was amazing, we could see the landing lights… now that was cool.

The Launch

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At last I have my very own website: www.beejayge.com

It’s so cool to have secured the beejayge domain. I’ve even got my own groovy email address: bryan@beejayge.com

I have also created a web page just for blogging. So from now on I will be using that blog rather than this one. Check it out now 🙂

Onepoto Domain

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Got up early this morning to catch some shots of the Onepoto Domain in the fog. As it turned out I didn’t need to make the huge effort to get up early, because the fog never went away. It hung around for most of the day LOL.

Kingfisher

Originally uploaded by beejayge

This weekend I went to Lake Pupuke in Takapuna to get some shots of The Pumphouse. It was really cold down by the water and the weather and light wasn’t really the best. However, I did manage to get a couple of great shots of this Kingfisher in a tree by the Arthouse near the lake.

Sunset

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Amazing sunset colours seen through the cabbage tree outside my window.

Went to Hamilton today to meet the IT Team down there. This sight completed my day perfectly.